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Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana

Auction Reports

Auction Name Printed and Manuscript Americana Total Sales (USD) 714,296.00
Auction Date September 28, 2023 - September 28, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 462,950.00
Sale Number #2646 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 694,000.00
Total Lots 335
Sold Lots 251.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 628,650.00
% of Lots Sold 74.93% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 940,450.00
Unsold Lots 84 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
46

Papers of the Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, including diaries, correspondence, lecture notes, and more.

bulk 1877-1920 USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 57,500.00
308 Alonso de Molina.

Confessionario mayor, en la lengua mexicana y castellana.

1565 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 40,000.00
28 Thomas Contee.

Diary of meetings with Washington and Hancock in the midst of the retreat from New York.

16 October to 21 December 1776 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 23,750.00
229 Thomas Penn.

Letters from the Proprietor of Pennsylvania to his agent, discussing Mr. Franklin, Indian wars, and more.

1744-1761 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 21,250.00
47

Papers of the "Snow Baby" Marie Ahnighito Peary, including her Arctic diary and the manuscript of "Children of the Arctic."

1900-1903 and undated USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
59

Partial New Testament given to John Winthrop as a 12th-birthday gift by his father in 1599.

1556 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 16,250.00
62 Ralph C. Worthington.

Long run of Gold Rush letters: claim jumpers, an Indian massacre, and a map of Sacramento.

1851-1853 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 16,250.00
311 Juan Navarro.

Liber in quo quatuor passiones Christi Domini continentur.

1604 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 16,250.00
215 Edward B. and James H. Wingate.

Letters by two early Boston converts, describing travel to Nauvoo and arguing theology.

1844-1846 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 13,750.00
312 Nicolás de Yrolo Calar.

Primera parte, de la politica de escripturas.

1605 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 13,125.00
280 GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Issue of the Gazette of the United States with the proclamation of the first Thanksgiving under the Constitution.

7 October 1789 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
262 Achsa W. Sprague.

Diary of a renowned touring spiritualist medium from early in her career.

17 November 1855 to 22 June 1857 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 10,625.00
68

Extensive photo album kept by a physician with the Grenfell Mission in remote parts of Labrador.

June to December 1915 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 10,000.00
22 [Thomas Paine.]

Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America.

1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 9,750.00
21

Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings from January 1, 1776, to January 1, 1777.

1778 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,375.00
208

Papers of the Unitarian minister Orville Dewey, including his diary and correspondence with William Cullen Bryant.

1776-1882 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,125.00
3 Thomas McKenney and James Hall.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America.

1848, 1849, 1850 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,500.00
19

The Gentleman's Magazine, complete from 1775 to 1782.

1775-1782 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
168 Thomas Kennedy.

Speech . . . in the Legislature of Maryland, on the Bill Respecting Civil Rights and Religious Privileges.

1823 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,000.00
315 [Bernardino de Urrutia.]

Protestacion que los vezinos de la Nueva-España . . .

1626 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,000.00
253 Mary Baker Glover Eddy.

The first three editions of Science and Health, and other related volumes.

1883-1930 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,500.00
214

Early newspaper report on "a new Bible" dictated by a "fellow by the name of Joseph Smith,"

25 May 1830 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,000.00
318 Francisco de Florencia.

La estrella de el norte de Mexico.

1688 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,500.00
325

Vida de San Felipe de Jesus, protomartir del Japon, y patron de su patria Mexico.

1801 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,500.00
48 Arthur M. Dodge.

Album compiled by the photographer of Peary's sixth Greenland expedition.

July to September 1896 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,250.00
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